Staircase is a two-character play by Charles Dyer about an ageing gay couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London.
The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
The Broadway production directed by Barry Morse opened on 10 January 1968 at the Biltmore Theatre, where it played for 12 previews and 61 performances.
Reviewing for Everything Theatre Darren Luke Mawdsley said it is: “…the perfect reminder that the freedoms enjoyed today can never be taken for granted” and gave the production three stars.
The play was adapted into a 1969 film by 20th Century Fox, also written by Dyer and directed by Stanley Donen, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as the couple.